Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone ...

The monster’s original name, Gojira, was a mash-up of the Japanese terms for gorilla and whale. He has roots in a real-life ...

Viewers see Godzilla's regenerating flesh sinking into the ocean and beginning to bubble. The last scene leaves room for the possibility of a new Godzilla emerging from the remnants of its flesh.

The Godzilla story is partly based on a March 1954 incident—just before the first movie was made—in which a Japanese fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean was exposed to radiation from a US ...